LONG BEACH, Calif. — No. 68 Long Beach State secured a 4-2 victory over No. 60 Dartmouth on Friday afternoon at the Rhodes Tennis Center, improving to 10-7 on the season while handing the Big Green just their fourth loss.<\/p>\n
The match opened with doubles play, where Dartmouth secured the point with wins at the No. 2 and No. 3 positions. Sam Grosjean and Alexandra Orlins earned a 7-5 victory over Pamela Badillo<\/a> and Thea Jagare<\/a>, while Josephine Lombardi and Elise Wong completed a 6-3 win against Daisy Carpenter<\/a> and Diana De Simone<\/a>. Cecilia Costa<\/a> and Paulina Franco held a narrow 6-5 lead at No. 1 when the match was halted.<\/p>\n Trailing 1-0, Long Beach State engineered a dramatic comeback as the match unfolded in sequence. Dartmouth pushed its advantage to 2-0 behind Sam Grosjean’s 6-3, 6-4 win at No. 5, leaving the Beach needing four straight courts. Paulina Franco ignited the turnaround with a gritty 6-0, 4-6, 6-2 win at No. 4, and Diana De Simone<\/a> followed by leveling the match with a clutch 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 performance at No. 2. With momentum fully shifting, Thea Jagare<\/a> battled through three sets at No. 3 for a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 victory to give LBSU its first lead of the day. All eyes then turned to the top court, where Cecilia Costa<\/a> delivered the clinching moment, rallying from a set down to defeat Peyton Capuano 5-7, 6-4, 6-1 and cap a four-point surge that sealed the 4-2 win.<\/p>\n With four singles victories, Long Beach State overturned the doubles deficit and controlled the middle courts to secure the 4-2 team result, highlighted by three three-set wins that demonstrated depth and resilience across the lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. — No. 68 Long Beach State secured a 4-2 victory over No. 60 Dartmouth on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-229920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}